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Kate Aurthur editorIn a memoir being released on Tuesday called “Little Sister,” Lana Wood, Natalie Wood’s sister, writes that Kirk Douglas sexually assaulted Natalie when she was a teenager, according to a report in the Guardian. The alleged assault took place in 1955 after Lana and their mother, Maria Zakharenko, dropped Natalie off at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles to meet with Douglas.Kirk Douglas died in February 2020 at age 103. His son Michael did not respond to Variety’s request for comment.

the late star was sexually assaulted as a teen by a much older actor at a Los Angeles hotel.

For decades, it's been one of Hollywood's darkest rumors: A teenage Natalie Wood was sexually assaulted by a top movie star more than twice her age when she met with him at a hotel in Los Angeles.  In a memoir coming out next week, Wood's younger sister identifies the long-suspected assailant: Kirk Douglas.  "I remember that Natalie looked especially beautiful when Mom and I dropped her off that night at the Chateau Marmont entrance," Lana Wood writes in "Little Sister," alleging that the incident happened in the summer of 1955, around the time Natalie Wood was filming "The Searchers." The meeting had been arranged by their mother, Maria Zakharenko, who thought that "many doors might be thrown open for her, with just a nod of his famous,